The Northern Renaissance

A Northern Renaissance artist who also published books was

Thomas More.
Hans Holbein.
Jan van Eyck.
Albrecht Dürer.

Where did Italian artists and writers flee for safety during the Italian wars?

northern Europe
southern Europe
North America
South America

After many people began reading and interpreting the Bible, they

began to support the Church’s teachings.
began to challenge the Church’s teachings.
ignored the Church.
abandoned the Church.

The Italian Renaissance spread across Europe in the late 1400s through

religion.
urbanization.
newspapers.
farming.

William Shakespeare’s plays contributed to Renaissance culture by

satirizing the Catholic Church.
describing an ideal society.

creating complex characters.
creating both books and art.

The graph shows the number of books printed in Europe between 1400-1800.

A conclusion that can be drawn from the graph is that the demand for books increased

slightly between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
slightly between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
sharply between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
sharply between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Which book could many people read for the first time because of the Gutenberg press?

Utopia
Republic
Hamlet
the Bible

Which best describes printing before the invention of the Gutenberg printing press?

a long, expensive process
a short, expensive process
a long, inexpensive process
a short, inexpensive process